The Sources & Factors Influential In Forming America's Music.

printed without any harmony, under some of the very literal paraphrases of the Psalms. The poetry often suffered by the exact char­acter of the setting, as the following examples of the first Psalm may show:

PSALM I, — SCRIPTURAL.

" Blessed is the man that walketh not in the coun­sel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sin­ners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."

" Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous."